Status Updates From The City Beautiful

As much as I love this, I'm over the halfway point now and the pace is still glacial, and we've gone not very far at all in terms of the mystery and the possession. I'm gonna trust the process because I really enjoy the atmosphere and Alter's relationship with Frankie tho

'They're all the same, Alter. We'll never be equals in their eyes. They can grit their teeth and tolerate us, but they'll never welcome us into their white cities, because ambition becomes something ugly when it has a Jewish face ... And no amount of blood, sweat, or fine tailoring will ever change that.'

'You can't look toward the future when you're carrying ghosts upon your back.'

[Did people really use the term "side gig" in the 1890s?]

In other words, the only time [Jews] were interesting was when we were accused of atrocities or being slaughtered in prodigious numbers.

‘You’re one to talk, Dovid,’ Yakov said. ‘When was the last time you danced with a girl?’
‘Just the other night.’
‘Nu? Who was she—your left hand or your right?’

[oh snap]

i love how every historical fiction set in the US from about 1880-1940 has a trademark communist/labor movement character whose only trait is wanting a class revolution

Frankie and alter kissed yayyy!

i don't want to speak to soon but this might actually be a good month for the fantasy book club